When I was 24, I won a Rhodes Scholarship.
For kids back home, making our state proud is the biggest thing.
I got an award for Most Improved Player for volleyball in tenth grade that I cared about a lot.
I had been in 760 performances of 10 different Shakespeare plays by the time I was 17.
The Olympic Gold medal in 1968 was definitely the highest moment of my career. It was a dream come true. I was a 19-year-old boy, and it was just amazing to be standing on top of the podium and hearing the National Anthem in the background.
I was 15 when I won the World Cup Guarana Antarctica in 2004. It was a very special moment.
The first tournament I ever played, I won. I was six years old.
I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.
When I was 11, I started building games for IBM PC XT.
I started singing about three years ago, I entered a local singing competition called Stratford Idol. The other people in the competition had been taking singing lessons and had vocal coaches. I wasn't taking it too seriously at the time, I would just sing around the house. I was only 12 and I got second place.
I got my Equity Card with my Broadway debut when I did 'Rent.' I was in high school, and I came to New York to do that show.
It's a great achievement for a 29-year-old to play 100 Tests.
I went from broke and homeless sleeping on couches. Couldn't even figure out what I was doing in Los Angeles. Now, I'm paying my own bills. I'm about to move my mama in with me at 19. I'm on tour now, and this is all off of one mixtape.
When I was nine years old, I was on the cover of 'Sport Karate' magazine.
I did graduate early and even received my master's degree in political science before I turned 22.
I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first time I got on stage and recited something. I fell in love with the stage at the age of 12.
I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.
When I was 11 years old, I was a member of 'Press Pack,' which was a thing that would come out in 'The Sunday Times' in England. You'd write articles and send them off and would get a badge saying 'Official Press.' I was really excited about my badge.
I was definitely not one of those kids prodigy guitar players.
When I was in high school at the age of 17 - I graduated from high school in Decatur, Georgia, as valedictorian of my high school - I was very proud of myself.
When I won the World Title at 24 and became the youngest, I knew that was huge.
I thought I did well for only being 19 years old on the international scene. I was proud of myself.
When I was 12, I was doing competitive jazz, tap and ballet in Michigan. The studio put the best dancers together, and I joined that. We always did really, really well in local competitions.
I was a Russian dancer in my elementary school production of 'Fiddler on the Roof' when I was in third grade or fourth grade. I was one of the younger kids accepted into the play, and the plays were pretty impressive, let me say.
The best part of being an angel investor is seeing these kids coming up with companies that get way more traffic than Reddit had when we sold it. I think, 'Are you kidding me? They're just kids, and they've done so much.'
